How can a staffing agency decrease your candidate search costs?

In today’s economy, now more than ever, every dollar really does count. How can you keep up with your hiring needs without tying up either the time of vital staff or blowing your budget? Seek the services of a professional staffing agency.

Such a company can help you:

Make A Plan. A staffing company can help you avoid the “ready-shoot-aim” knee-jerk reaction companies sometimes experience when they lose a valued employee or find themselves suddenly awash with work and needing to staff up. Strategic planning will help you make sure what your true requirements are; perhaps your needs have changed recently or you may be able to combine what you thought would be two positions into one qualified person, saving money on salaries.

Fish From A Bigger Pond. Staffing companies have many more contacts than you do. Keeping in contact with who is out looking for a job (and even knowing where to look for talent who isn’t actively looking, but will be interested in the right opportunity) is their speciality, after all. Their databases are current (and being constantly added to) and their recruiters are checking, not only traditional avenues, but making use of social networks to cast their nets much wider than you can for the perfect candidate…and one in your price range.

Rethink Temps. The days of a temporary worker meaning just a warm body who can answer the phone while filling in for a sick staffer are over. In this economy, highly qualified candidates are working as temps—not only until they land a permanent job, but by choice. They appreciate the flexibility and you can make use of their expertise for only a limited time if that suits your purposes better than adding a full-time staffer. This may also cut your benefit costs as temps may be offered limited benefits and, in some cases, those benefits may be paid by the staffing agency.

Do The Heavy Lifting. Staffing services eliminates the cost and endless time spent advertising, reading resumes, checking references/credit history/criminal background, interviewing, and testing candidates. You will be presented with a short list of pre-screened and qualified candidates from which to choose—no fuss, no muss and less time and money spent.

Keep Your Eye On The Ball. You have better things to do than deal with the endless paperwork, emails, phone calls, and interviewing filling any job vacancy required these days. You have a company to run. Let a staffing agency test if the candidate really is an expert in Powerpoint or knows their way around a web CMS system. You build the business (and the profits) while the staffing company narrows down who might be a good addition to your staff.

Realize Time Really Is Money. Every second spent arranging for candidates to interview is less time your HR staff can spend doing the other important tasks of their jobs like tracking insurance and benefits for your current employees (and you won’t be looking at all the overtime costs you could incur if they are over-burdened by trying to keep up with the entire recruitment process.)

Get Answers To The Tough Questions. Unless you are totally up on what can and can’t be asked legally on an interview or what might constitute a violation of privacy when it comes to checking a candidate out on Facebook, you are better off limiting your liability and leaving such queries to the professionals. They’ll keep your company from being exposed you to an expensive lawsuit.

At Arrow Staffing, we are professionals and we can help you save money, evaluate your workforce needs, and present highly qualified candidates to meet those needs. We look forward to your call.

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